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- Blog: GOP tax plans would increase taxes on low-wage Kansans, decrease taxes for high-income Kansans, report says May 23, 2013 · 19 comments
- Editorial: Development shift? May 24, 2013 · 3 comments
- 59 minors, several local businesses, cited for alcohol violations in state regulator's patrols in May May 23, 2013 · 10 comments
- Opinion: Obama shares strong message May 24, 2013 · 2 comments
- Will of the people May 21, 2013 · 34 comments
- Editorial: Guns, speech May 23, 2013 · 28 comments
- Senate Republicans approve sales tax increase, cuts in income tax rates, lower food sales tax May 23, 2013 · 22 comments
- Long-term plan suggests toll lanes on K-10 corridor May 23, 2013 · 27 comments
- City commissioner wants state to revoke nightclub's liquor license May 21, 2013 · 86 comments
- Republican tax plans would increase state revenue, analyses say May 22, 2013 · 45 comments
- Former Lawrence resident Sri Srinivasan confirmed for prestigious D.C. Court of Appeals May 23, 2013
- Senate Republicans approve sales tax increase, cuts in income tax rates, lower food sales tax May 23, 2013
- CEO Gene Meyer honored for leading Lawrence Memorial Hospital to success May 23, 2013
- No consensus on McLemore's draft position after lottery May 23, 2013
- 100 years ago: Exhausted man rescued after collapse on railroad tracks May 22, 2013
- 40 years ago: Liquor-by-the-drink banned on trains passing through Kansas May 17, 2013
- KU football adds Miami Ohio wide receiver Nick Harwell May 22, 2013
- Wildflower Walk set for Saturday May 24, 2013
- Arrest made in death of former Jayhawk McMillan May 23, 2013
- Basketball notebook: UNC hires son of ex-KU athletic director May 24, 2013
Global Warming Greenhouse Theory Disproved a Century Ago
Climatologists would actually talk about "radiative forcing" -- the greenhouse analogy is just a way for lay people to think about it. As you point out, CO2 reflects infrared in all directions, but because that wavelength is where Earth dissipates energy from absorbed visible light, additional CO2 increases the forcing. It's a very small amount, a watt or so per square meter, but it just adds up over time as land and oceans warm up.
People who are serious about the science may want to check the work of Richard Muller, a former skeptic. He analyzed the data very carefully and concluded that (1) there is a warming trend, (2) the trend matches CO2 levels, (3) the CO2 is from fossil fuels, and (4) solar radiation does not match the warming trend. He didn't use an computer models or theories either.
But no, bondsmen, this is not about government control. This is about a slowly unfolding disaster. Once we put the CO2 into the air, we have no way to get it out. If those who deny there is a problem get in the way of solving it and turn out to be wrong, there is no way to fix it.. People who love their children should not experiment with the atmosphere. If nothing else, the drought in the U.S. and the heat wave in Australia should show us how powerless we are if the climate changes.
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